I hate the GYM.

Hello everyone, Me again!

How is everyone’s 2012 going so far? I hope you are all now back on track after all of the festivities, or I hope you did not go off track at all! Hello to all of the newbies and welcome to the club!I

Anyway!

I must confess to you all that right now I HATE THE GYM. I hate going there, I hate being there and I hate the thought of it all. As you all know by now I used Jillian Michaels DVDs at home last year and ran outside doing the C25k/B210k programmes! Then in December I decided to join the gym. The main reason for this was purely to use the treadmill as I was finding it too cold for my poor ears running outside! Also living where I live… it is not nice for a young girl to go out running on her own in the dark!!!

When I joined the gym I was given a personal programme to do by my personal advisor. He was really nice and showed me all the exercises he wanted me to do. I had to write it down each time. Basically it was 7min warm-up on the bike, some weights, then treadmill for 20mins. The weights exercises he gave me mostly arms for one day and the next day was about legs. Anyway I was a good girl, I did what I was told, and for a couple of weeks followed his poxy plan. Then I went on holiday for a week (see blogs below!) and then Christmas came and went so it was closed, I worked etc…

So I go back to the gym last week – it is packed!!! There are people everywhere and I can’t believe it. I managed to get a treadmill and thought ok, I will start with this… So I did. I was actually wearing my new sports watch that I got for Christmas. It is a watch that is very specific to you and you enter your weight etc… onto it and you wear a strap around your chest that connects to the watch and it measures your heart rate accurately. It also calculates the calories your burn off whilst you’re wearing it. So I was running away on the treadmill, wearing my watch and I saw the calories burning off. I decided to try and burn off 1,000 calories… I then saw an exercise bike free so after running 5k I hopped on the exercise bike. I looked over my shoulder at the weights and I saw a lot of 20 something men, chatting and sitting on all of the machines and I just thought to myself. No. Way. In. Hell. So when I had reached 500 calories on my watch I toddled off home.

When I got home however I decided to go for the other 500 calories I wanted to burn off by doing one of my new Bob Harper DVDs. Bob is the male partner in crime of Jillian Michaels, from the Biggest Loser USA. I got a bunch of his DVDs for Christmas so I thought I’d give it a go. Yep – an hour with Bob and I’d burnt off 1,092 calories in total. I felt great.

So at the end of that story what I am trying to say is…

I am now sticking to my original plan of using the gym for the treadmill/bike only and doing my weights and abs at home, with Bob and Jillian. I really missed doing my DVDs and they are really tough workouts. So I get more out of them. I have been so miserable thinking that I have to do what the personal advisor says, and I felt guilty for a while. But I have done this on my own for a year and lost 6 stone before joining the gym... I think Jillian taught me so much, because he didn't even have a clue what the C25k was or anything. Hopefully can quit that place when it warms up a bit!!!!

The picture is of my Christmas Watch and DVDs! I am a lucky girl!!!